The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this idiosyncrasy does not appeal . They have no patience with the world constructed by its instrumentality . It may ...
... spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this idiosyncrasy does not appeal . They have no patience with the world constructed by its instrumentality . It may ...
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... is all to the good , for thus they can manage and manipulate them . For my part , of the various theories of the relations between matter and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the [ 260 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... is all to the good , for thus they can manage and manipulate them . For my part , of the various theories of the relations between matter and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the [ 260 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... spirit , if spirit it may be called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , [ 271 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... spirit , if spirit it may be called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , [ 271 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth